Duty Quotes - page 4

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. Let them boldly assert the cause of Christ in an age when so many, who bear the name of Christians, are ashamed of Him: and let them consider as devolved on Them the important duty of suspending for a while the fall of their country, and, perhaps, of performing a still more extensive service to society at large; not by busy interference in politics, in which it cannot but be confessed there is much uncertainty; but rather by that sure and radical benefit of restoring the influence of Religion, and of raising the standard of morality. (William Wilberforce)
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. View quote
John Fowles
My duty is to obey orders. View quote
Stonewall Jackson
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. View quote
James Baldwin
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The greatest want of the world is the want of men-men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall. View quote
Ellen G. White
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning. View quote
John Banville
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. View quote
William Kingdon Clifford
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. View quote
George Orwell
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more. (Henry Fielding)
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided.... No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
Life is action, the use of one's powers. As to use them to their height is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland. View quote
Augusto Pinochet
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. View quote
Helen Keller
The man who prefers his country before every other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the State. They both deny that right is superior to authority. View quote
John W. Campbell
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death. View quote
Denis Diderot
As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. View quote
Ann Landers
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. (Andrew Carnegie)
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. View quote
John Stuart Mill
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that. View quote
Charles Buxton
A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him. View quote
Albert Kesselring
A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering. View quote
Albert Kesselring